Candi Solar, a provider of distributed solar solutions for commercial and industrial (C&I) businesses, has secured $58.5 million in funding led by the International Finance Corp. (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. The facility will directly finance nearly 200 MWp of new projects.

Modern wind turbines and solar plants generate large volumes of operational data. By leveraging analytics, inefficiencies can be identified, performance assessed in real-time, and emerging issues addressed before they escalate. A dynamic operations and maintenance (O&M) support system builds on this intelligence to provide a strong grip on performance levels while minimising downtime.

The country’s planned steel capacity expansion presents an opportunity to adopt cleaner technologies if supported by the right financing pathways.  

As renewable capacity rises, the question is no longer whether India can generate green power. The real challenge is whether the grid can absorb it smoothly and deliver it reliably when people actually need it. This is where battery energy storage systems (BESS) are increasingly seen not as a luxury but as a core part of grid planning.

Around 92% of the required investments—about $3.79 trillion—would flow into the energy transition, spanning renewable energy, storage, clean mobility, and green hydrogen.

JMK Research expects India to add around 41.5 GW of new solar capacity in FY2026 (twelve months ending March 31, 2026). Of this annual addition, around 32 GW is expected to come from utility-scale projects, 8 GW from rooftop solar, and 1.5 GW from off-grid systems.

Latest government figures record 20.7 GW deployed PV capacity at the end of October 2025, up 10.4% in a 12-month period. Surge in contracts for difference (CfD) supported connections recorded in 2025 with more large ground-mount projects in the pipeline.

Sunsure Energy has signed a long-term solar power purchase agreement (PPA) with Bisleri International to supply solar power to Bisleri’s manufacturing facility in Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. The power will be sourced from Sunsure’s 82.5 MWp solar plant in Erach, Uttar Pradesh.

Sterling and Wilson Renewable Energy Ltd (SWREL) has received a Letter of Award for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a 240 MW AC solar PV project in South Africa. This is the company’s second international order from South Africa this fiscal, secured within two months.

Scientists in Ghana have developed a device that combines a conventional solar PV-powered steam cooker with sand-based thermal energy storage. The system can achieve a thermal efficiency of 38.9% and has a payback period of 4.5 years.

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University have demonstrated a method to integrate chemically inert low-dimensional interface materials into the fabrication of inverted perovskite solar cells. Their prototype solar cells retained over 93% of the initial power conversion efficiency of 25.1% after 1,000 hours of operation, and 98% after 1,100 hours at 85 C.

A 2 MW solar park in Wallonia, Belgium, will rely 50 kW of hydrogen-producing solar modules developed by Solhyd, a spin-off from KU Lueven. The installation will be the first demonstration of Solhyd’s technology at a commercially-relevant scale.

Elon Musk says a constellation of solar-powered artificial intelligence satellites could regulate the planet’s energy balance and limit global warming.

With renewables’ share in power generation expected to grow significantly, there will also be a push in the demand for next-generation transformers that are capable of handling the intermittent nature of solar, wind, and other non-polluting sources of energy. The grid of the future demands not only more transformers but smarter, adaptive, and sustainable designs that can support India’s ambitious renewable targets and fast-rising power demand.

Solar panel cleaning equipment company Objectif Drone has launched a new 7 kg dual-brush cleaning robot with a speed of 5 km/h made for small and medium-sized PV installations.

The Chinese manufacturer said the higher-voltage design of the new module reduces cable, combiner, pile-foundation, and land-use requirements, delivering balance-of-system savings of up to CNY 0.15 ($0.012)/W in western China. The module offers a power output of 730 W to 770 W and a conversion efficiency of up to 24.8%.

Waaree Energies will supply 350 MW of TOPCon G12R modules to power AMPIN’s flagship solar projects across India. The delivery of the modules is scheduled to be completed by March 2026

The Chinese manufacturer says Germany’s Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) has independently verified the result.

Premier Energies now holds 80% of Premier-Green Aluminium, the JV company formed for manufacturing aluminium frames for solar PV modules, with Nuevosol Energy holding the remaining 20%.

A report from the Clean Energy Technology Observatory finds that while the EU is a technology leader in PV inverters, trackers and mounting structures, its manufacturing capacity in solar ingots, wafers, cells and modules falls far behind targets set by the Net Zero Industry Act.

Lineage Power will supply battery energy storage systems to Larsen & Toubro for its project with Bihar State Power Generation Co. Ltd in Kajra.

Waaree Group has secured a 10 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) order from a major infrastructure development company. The BESS will be deployed in Tamil Nadu.

B.C. Jindal Group has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with state-owned Solar Energy Corp. of India Ltd (SECI) for 150 MW round-the-clock (RTC) renewable power. It was allocated the capacity under SECI’s 1,200 MW RTC tender issued in November last year.

After last year’s slowdown, investment in China’s sodium-ion battery sector is rebounding in 2025, and one of the biggest projects yet has now entered the development pipeline.

Patanjali Ayurved secured the largest slice of 250 MW/1 GWh in Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd’s tender for a 500 MW/2000 MWh, four-hour single-cycle standalone battery energy storage system.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that India’s solar generation potential was significantly hampered during September and October due to an intensified southwest monsoon, resulting in a 15% decrease in irradiance compared to the long-term average.

Green hydrogen is not just an energy alternative, it’s an industrial revolution in motion. For India’s steel industry, it offers a chance to rewrite the script: from being one of the largest emitters to becoming a global model for sustainable growth.

India’s journey toward electric mobility is not just about reconnecting with a global trend, it’s a movement rooted in the spirit of Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India. What makes our transition extraordinary isn’t just the scale, but the fact that we’re building this transformation from the ground up.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides a quick look at the main price trends in the global PV industry.